Droom, Indian online automobile transactional marketplace is geared up to launch a mega promotional campaign with a budget of INR 100cr. The new campaign is being launched for television, YouTube, print, digital and social media and will also be seen outdoors on billboards and external installations. The entire campaign is designed to drive traffic and increase consumer awareness and to enhance the sense of pride amongst Indian consumers when it comes to buying a pre-owned vehicle.
Droom, which has reported more than 700% year-on-year revenue, plans to adopt an aggressive performance-linked marketing approach which will see country-wide spread of the advertisements. Automobiles, being a big-ticket item, have a significant gestation period which may last from a minimum one month to a year.
Commenting on the king-size marketing budget, Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder and CEO Droom, said, “Buying a used vehicle is still shrouded in great doubt for many Indian consumers. This year, through our marketing efforts, we hope to instil a sense of pride in the buyers when they purchase a pre-owned automobile. Our focus completely lies in implementing high Return-On-investment promotion options. Furthermore, the 360-degree marketing initiatives will also help us achieve our goal of reaching an annualized GMV of INR 3000 crore by the end of 2016 and INR 5-7,000 crore by the end of 2017 by enhancing consumer tendency to look at the benefits of purchasing their dream vehicles through us.”
Keeping this trend in mind along with the upcoming festive season when the propensity to purchase vehicles is the highest, Droom will be rolling out the marketing initiatives well in advance. Of the total 100cr budget, INR 25 crore has been allocated to TV, outdoor, print and radio advertising and other ATL activities. Considering the huge market available digitally, a further INR 25 crore has been assigned to digital promotional activities such as Search Engine optimization, online ads etc. With the festive season in the offing, deals and discounts would also feature significantly in the marketing budget allocation.
Droom’s marketing campaign would be a round-the-year process with periods of heightened activity. Catering to seven different cities including Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad and Mumbai, Droom envisions INR 100 crore budget as the minimum threshold, rather than the maximum value allocation, and plans to raise the industry standards of marketing expenditure through its upcoming brand building activities.
Founded in April 2014 in Silicon Valley, Droom is Indian marketplace to buy and sell new and used automobiles and automobile services. Droom has taken a completely innovative and disruptive approach to build trust and pricing advantages for buyers.
The current experience of buying and selling an automobile is completely broken, antiquated and full of pitfalls. Droom offers a truly 21st century experience in buying and selling automobiles. With its technology driven marketplace approach, Droom enables transactions between buyers and sellers by bringing transparency, building trust, and mitigating information asymmetry. Droom is a mobile first marketplace with a presence on three platforms i.e. Android, iOS and Desktop.
Droom is among the fastest growing consumer Internet companies in India with 62K+ B2C sellers, 25K+ products, 97K+ listings, Rs.4,500 Cr+ in listed GMV, 2.36 Mil+ FB Community members (highest for any automobile community in India) and over 2.97 Mil+ downloads for mobile apps.
Droom has a very strong and proven founding team with 50 years of combined experience in technology, Internet, E-Commerce and FMCG including 20 years in Silicon Valley. Sandeep Aggarwal is founder of Droom. Prior to Droom, Sandeep founded ShopClues.com, India’s first & largest managed marketplace and 5th Unicorn in the Consumer Internet in India. Droom has a team of 168 and is funded by some of the leading global venture investors.
